Henry James

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Standard Name: James, Henry
HJ (who began publishing in 1871 and continued into the twentieth century) left his native USA to settle in England early in his writing career. Known for his extreme subtlety, verging at times on obscurity,
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
he was hugely influential as a novelist, short-story writer, and critic. His also wrote plays, which, however, were unsuccessful on stage.

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Textual Production Michelene Wandor
Novels adapted by MW are not restricted to those by women. Works by male writers she has revised for broadcasting include Kipps by H. G. Wells , aired on Radio 4 in 1984 and runner-up...
Textual Production Ford Madox Ford
FMF published a volume of art criticism, Rossetti : A Critical Essay on His Art, in 1902. He followed this with a work of social criticism, The Soul of London, 1905, which he...
Textual Production Anita Brookner
AB headed her latest novel, A Closed Eye, with a quotation from Madame de Mauves by Henry James .
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Brookner, Anita. A Closed Eye. Random House.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sophia Jex-Blake
SJB 's review is largely informational. It covers works of fiction including New Grooves by Annie Thomas , A Woman-Hater by Charles Reade , Dr. Edith Romney by Anne Elliot , Doctor Zay by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Agnes Hamilton
Although she writes that [a]ccounts of childhood I do not care for. My memory of my own is bad,
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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MAH gives a long, evocative first chapter to her parents and her childhood. She adds...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Christine Brooke-Rose
The subjects of CBR 's exploration here are the idea of genre, science fiction in relation to realism, the act of interpretation, and syntactic complementarity. Brooke-Rose considers these issues in relation to the fictional...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Emma Tennant
ET imagines that James in The Aspern Papers has done what she herself is doing: fictionalizing an actual situation from literary history. Part of the novel moves back from the later to the earlier nineteenth...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text E. M. Forster
This is on the whole a conservative work. Forster supports H. G. Wells against Henry James in their argument over the question in fiction of pattern versus representation of experience. Although he calls for innovation...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Ella Hepworth Dixon
In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith , Margaret Kennedy (particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim , and Violet Hunt . Authors who receive whole...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Conflict (1903) features another wife murderer, as well as the minor character of Mr Jordan, based upon Henry James . A Lost Eden (1904) rehearses some of MEB 's own childhood in its depiction...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Storm Jameson
Jameson briefly praises the writings of Mansfield , Conrad , Hardy , and James , along with Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis . However, she concentrates her study on the way other Georgian authors have...
Travel Rhoda Broughton
She made some trips abroad, but apparently not for extended periods. A visit to Algeria in the 1880s seems to have provided the setting for her novel Alas!, and she spent time with her...
Travel Edith Wharton
EW was accustomed from childhood to European travel and even to living in Europe for years at a time. She and her husband spent something like half of every year abroad.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
From February to April...
Travel Margaret Oliphant
MO holidayed in Venice, where she met Henry James .
Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. St Martin’s Press.
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